This is a great first for Ludivine: she is about to parade in a haute couture dress.
She only has one arm and her disability will be honored during a solidarity fashion show.
"People with disabilities have their place in fashion, and you have to think about them", explains Ludivine.
"The body is a little bruised, it's damaged, there are deformities. There are those kinds of things, yes… but we can do something about it."
"It's solidarity, it's collective"
This fashion show for people with disabilities was made possible thanks to a great mobilization and a donation campaign.
At the origin of this project: Jacqueline Uwera, refugee from the Rwandan genocide and multi-disabled.
"It's solidarity, it's collective thanks to the volunteers, we organize ourselves together to show that we are like the others. We are proud to be able to do things for our future", she says.
The project succeeded in mobilizing major brands to dress and put on the models.
Many volunteer creators also gave their time.
Like Julie, who dressed Ludivine and who explains: "There is obviously the challenge of the model maker: we tell ourselves that everything we have learned in a classic way... there, nothing works. So you have to adapted to the person, to their type of disability."
Physical or mental handicap, wheelchair, crutches… Models forget everything once they are on the catwalk.
They share the same fight, that of raising awareness and opening the world of fashion to the world of disability.
A daily challenge, while France today has twelve million people in this situation.
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